Whereas Carlos Ghosn sits free as a fugitive in Lebanon, two males who helped him escape home arrest in Japan are sitting in jail.

“There is just one optimistic on this, which is that I helped save a person’s life,” Michael Taylor, an inmate in Dedham, Mass., instructed The Wall Avenue Journal for a story published last week. “I want I used to be by no means concerned.”

Taylor and his son Peter helped sneak Ghosn, the previous Nissan and Renault chairman, out of his house in Japan inside a musical instrument case. The Taylors have been arrested in Could and at the moment are combating extradition to Japan. They have not disputed serving to Ghosn however argue that their help did not break any Japanese legislation.

Michael Taylor, a safety specialist who was within the U.S. Military Particular Forces, obtained a name from a former consumer who requested him to assist Ghosn flee Japan, and prosecutors say he and his son obtained wire transfers totaling $1.3 million for his or her assist. Ghosn was slated to go on trial in Japan on monetary misconduct prices that he has denied.

Peter Taylor first met with Ghosn in July 2019 at Cicada, a Mediterranean restaurant in Tokyo {that a} web site describes as “an amazing escape.”